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unfathered
[ uhn-fah-therd ]
adjective
- having no father; fatherless.
- of illegitimate or unknown paternity; bastard.
- not ascribable to a particular author or source:
unfathered tales.
unfathered
/ ʌnˈfɑːðəd /
adjective
- having no known father
- of unknown or uncertain origin
- archaic.fatherless
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Word History and Origins
Origin of unfathered1
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Example Sentences
Unfathered, un-f′thėrd, adj. having no father, fatherless: not acknowledged by its father.
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But he turned to his own family, then as always afterwards, with an affection stimulated by his unfathered state in England.
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The son of nobody, a being unfathered in the eye of the law, is the brother of nobody.
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It was one of those vagrant, orphan poems with fine family lineaments that find their way unfathered into odd corners of papers.
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And before it had come on for trial the case of Aurora Lane and her unfathered boy.
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